The Last Summer of the Camperdowns
“There was no sign of him, nor anyone else for that matter. Only the Gypsy horse, Boomslang, who ran free in the pasture, cantering alongside Mary on the opposite side of the fence when I rode her early in the morning or at dusk.
He made his own wind, that horse, galloping across the field, mane soaring and tail streaming, rippling like an unmoored kite. I half expected him at any moment to leave the ground and take flight, vanishing into the blue sky and the clouds.
“Run into anyone interesting...?” my mother said, glancing up slyly from where she sat in her tan leather club chair, feet elevated, smoking and drinking Coca-Cola, her singular concession to populism. The four basset hounds, arranged lifelessly on the floor around her like chalk outlines, barely lifted their heads, batted their tails and fell back to sleep, as she continued reading, poring over a story about Charlie Devlin and the various theories floating around about what happened to him.
“No,” I said, draping my jacket over the back of an occasional chair and flopping onto the sofa.MoreLess
He made his own wind, that horse, galloping across the field, mane soaring and tail streaming, rippling like an unmoored kite. I half expected him at any moment to leave the ground and take flight, vanishing into the blue sky and the clouds.
“Run into anyone interesting...?” my mother said, glancing up slyly from where she sat in her tan leather club chair, feet elevated, smoking and drinking Coca-Cola, her singular concession to populism. The four basset hounds, arranged lifelessly on the floor around her like chalk outlines, barely lifted their heads, batted their tails and fell back to sleep, as she continued reading, poring over a story about Charlie Devlin and the various theories floating around about what happened to him.
“No,” I said, draping my jacket over the back of an occasional chair and flopping onto the sofa.MoreLess
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